The Shebanek NeXTStep book arrived today, the one I ordered last week through Abe Books (and supplied by Thrift Books in Aurora, IL.)

Described as "used" and supposedly in fair condition, it showed up looking completely clean and unused --- and I was a bit premature assuming that the software diskette would not be included: not only is the NeXTStep diskette still in the book, but the plastic envelope has never even been opened.

Expectations exceeded. I will have to read up on how to copy diskettes and make a backup. I hope the floppy is still good.

I have owned a NeXTStation Mono, my first and only NeXT computer, for just over a month now and am a novice at this stuff. Realistically speaking, I simply do not have the skills required to connect the NeXTStation to our home network (five Macs) in order to post a disk image to DropBox ... and when I put the disk into my Mac Pro to create a disk image for that purpose, of course it says that the disk is unreadable and offers to initialize it...

I could, theoretically, duplicate the 1.44MB floppy disk (by using the instructions outlined in Michael B. Shebanek's excellent book) and mail you a copy.

Unfortunately, I am in CANADA. If I were in China, I could send out no end of disks for free...

If someone who lives close to Toronto in Southern Ontario and whose NeXTStation or other NeXT Computer is already networked, and who could give me a mailing address, I would gladly drop a duplicate copy of the diskette into the mail.

I will not post my email address here for fear of attracting SPAM, but if you mosey on over to <www.mause.ca> and click on the tab for Executive Team you will find that I am listed as President. Click on my name (Michael) to send me a message. Include a mailing address and I will mail you a disk with a copy of the compressed files that were included on the Shebanek diskette. Then you can make a disk image post it here for all to see.